Digitizing the Halvey Photograph Collection, Step One
...he collection contains negatives from the entirety of Halvey’s career, from 1935 to 1999. These images capture presidents, popes, entertainers, as well as everyday participants in Philadelphia Catholic life. In addition to photos taken for The Catholic Standard and Times there are photos taken for organizations and schools such as
Historic Anti-Catholic Cartoons
...ns date back to the Protestant Reformation, around the 1870s there was a renewed focus on the Catholic Church in the United States. World events, such as the new dogma of papal infallibility (the belief that the pope cannot be wrong in matters of faith), raised concerns that Catholics owed
Patrick Coad, patentee of the galvanic battery, and interesting miscellaneous items
...hese obviously are in need of conservation!) Yellow fever deaths, September 1798 Yellow fever deaths, Summer 1798 2. The other item of interest is another list, this one a list of food items requested by military personnel and civilians who were stationed at St. Paul’s Church during the first phase
Martin, Campbell, and Furlong families papers, 1795-1963 (MC 90)
...movements of the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries, including the labor movement and women’s suffrage. Distinguished members of these families are represented, including suffragist and writer Sarah Jane Campbell (1844-1928). Items in the collection date from 1795 to 1939 with the majority of materials dating from the period 1825 to 1925. Most